If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize your watches ... in ten seconds time the barrage starts ... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years...

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.