The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

I hope you're not leading a double life, pretending to be wicked while being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.