“Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good”

“It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.”

“In an old house in Paris that was covered with vinesLived twelve little girls in two straight linesIn two straight lines they broke their breadAnd brushed their teeth and went to bed.They left the house at half past nineIn two straight lines in rain or shine-The smallest one was Madeline.”

“The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.”

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”

“A confession has to be part of your new life.”

“Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. ”