albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.

Silence too can be indiscreet.

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

One is not oneself every day-fortunately.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.