Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

One partner is always more in love than the other.

Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.

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.

I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.