It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.