Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.

He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.

No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.

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.

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.

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

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