There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

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

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.