I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.

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.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.