I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.

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

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.

No one talks about money more than people who have too much of it.

One partner is always more in love than the other.

The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.

There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.