When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.

I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

Music is important for one's health.

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.