You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

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

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

We are the hero of our own story.

Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.

With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.