If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

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

If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.