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

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.