A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones.

Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.