You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.

A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.