It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.