Far less envy in America than in France.

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.

I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.