In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.