Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.