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

Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

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

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

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