It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.