An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s indispensable.

They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.

When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.