Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.

Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines.

If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.

Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.

Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.

Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.