Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

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

The bourgeois are other people.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.