Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

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.

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

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

Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.