It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him.

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.

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.