One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.

The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!

The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.