To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.