Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.