“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.