A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather aremetaphors.

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.