When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.