Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

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.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.