War: a massacre of people who dont know each other for the profit of people who know each other but dont massacre each other. – Paul Valery
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. – Paul Valery
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. – Paul Valery
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – Paul Valery
Theres something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times – one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. – Julie Burchill