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.

Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.

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.

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.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

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

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.