Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.