Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.

You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.