Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

If someone ridicules you, say to him, I love you.

Strong people are those who have been broken so many times, lost many people in life but still have love to give and strength to trust again.

Truth is an acquired taste.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book.

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.

My mom is part albino.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.