Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

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

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

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

I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure