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

I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.

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

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.

If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.