A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day..

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure..

I would rather worry without need than live without heed..

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise..

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success..

Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love..

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them..

I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know h….

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it..

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks..

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness..

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick..

To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't..

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry..

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it..

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything..

The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire..

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them..

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them..

I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep..

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die..