I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.