An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.