Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.

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

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

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

I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.