Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.