Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.

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

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.

It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.

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.

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

One partner is always more in love than the other.