Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

The furniture and trappings in the apartment are all in a state of flux - here today, gone tomorrow. Nothing is anchored to its place, not even the coffee-pot, which floats off and returns, on the tide of the signora's marine nature.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.