When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.

One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.

Do you always laugh when you make love?' said Fabrice. I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose I do. I generally laugh when I'm happy and cry when I'm not. Do you find it odd?