Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.

love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.