He who awaits much can expect little.

I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

Only God knows how much I love you.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.