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

When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.

If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.

It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.

I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.