Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

Doing nothing, badly.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.