On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.

It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.

I told them not to worry about it, since we were going to play indoors.

Some days you feel like you've had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you've been trampled on.

My horizons are also broadened by working with so many people around Europe. They taught me what I never would have learned just staying in my own country.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

A lot of guys like to go to the beach and bring a crowd, but not me. I like to be alone and out there with a couple of pelicans.