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

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.

When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.

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.

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.