The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.

Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

The real truths are those that can be invented.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.