Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

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