Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

Nothing about me surprises me.

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

There are words which cut like steel.