What you call types of mind are only mental ages.

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

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

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

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

One partner is always more in love than the other.