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.

There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.

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.

I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.

It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.

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

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.