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

And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.

Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

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

The only certainty is death.