Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.

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.