To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.