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

To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.

The real truths are those that can be invented.