I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

There is always something left to love.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.