Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.

The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.

It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.

Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.