It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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 bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.