Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

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

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.