A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

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.

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

You don't even live once.

The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.