The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.

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

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.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.