The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.