Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.

It seemed a good idea at the time.