Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.