The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.

It all depends what you mean by.

My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored.

It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

A man's style should be like his dress. It should be as unobtrusive and should attract as little attention as possible.

A good soul like a good body should be as unobtrusive as possible; in so far as it functions properly, it should not be noticed for good or for ill.

There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

Automatic praise is a mere succession of noises.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.

Duets are not about individual skill but about the relationship between the two players.

If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed.

There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch.