When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.