Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.

There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women.

The best memories are those which we have forgotten.

To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.

Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.

A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.

Happiness is the only thing one should ever be resigned to.

What is worse losing love or never finding it at all?

For many years quantum physics had been giving indications that there are levels of reality other than the material level.

Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.

It is not what we choose that is important; it is the reason we choose it.

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it's going to happen.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

If you don't pass through anything in life, you can't be anything.

I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.

When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.