Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

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.

It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.