Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.