happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.

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