One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

Art must take reality by surprise.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

I always believe things are going to work out.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.