If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.

When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.