I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.

He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with.They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence. It was as simple as that. And wasn' t that worth something? He existed.

Everything human is alien to me.