When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.

I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

America is one long expectoration.

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.