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

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.

Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.