No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

Women are women and can't help themselves.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

Life becomes difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires.

Tourism does not go to a city that has lost its soul.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

It's impossible for anyone to meet the expectation of being the savior of the world.

I am confident and not trying to hide my bump. I actually want to accentuate it.

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.

Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.