I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.

It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.

Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.

The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.