Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.

To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.

Imagination is the voice of the daring.