The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

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.

Art must take reality by surprise.

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

In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.