How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

Hunger is good discipline.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.