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

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided this form of meagre compensation. If we couldn't have sex from time to time, what would life be? A futile struggle against joints that stiffen, caries that form. All of which, moreover, is as uninteresting as humanly possible - the collagen which makes muscles stiffen, the appearance of microbic cavities in the gums.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.