Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you; they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.

The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I don't want to write for these big magazines, but you can't edit it."

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.