I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.