I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.

It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.

Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.

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.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.

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