What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.