Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.

Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.