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.

Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!

That parasite: the past.

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.