Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.