It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage.

What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures.

Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.

COLD. Healthier than heat.

If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.