Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.

Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Science is uneasy with beginnings. Mythology is concerned above all with what happened "in the beginning". Its signature is "Once upon a time".

Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.

The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.

I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.

That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.

I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.

Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now.

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

Success always demands a greater effort.