It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.