I drink so the others become interesting.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

I've been studying drugs for years.

Good night, sweetheart," he says. "Good bye, sweetheart," I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

I don't wanna get rich - just live good.

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.