An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

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

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

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

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

The bourgeois are other people.