Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

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

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.

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

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead