Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.

The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.