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

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

I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.

If only art were as rare as good taste.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.