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 recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

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

Love is worth whatever it costs.

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.