Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.