A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

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

She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: "We do not understand because we cannot find the cause," we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers.