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

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Our shadows are taller than ourselves.

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.

To be married is to be neither alone nor together.

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.