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've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

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

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

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

I always believe things are going to work out.

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.