Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

On Sunday morning I went out for a while in the neighbourhood; I bought some raisin bread. The day was warm but a little sad, as Sundays often are in Paris, especially when one doesn't believe in God.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.