I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

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.

I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.

Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.