The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.