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

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

That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!

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.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.