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

It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.

Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.