Frenchman: Germans with good food.

Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.

When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.

My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.