I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

The bourgeois are other people.

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?

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

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