In love there is no status quo.

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.

All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.

Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.