To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.