The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

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.

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.