The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason, but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.

I think that Donald Trump has capitalized and prayed on people's fears.

It doesn't get any easier; you just get faster.

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive.