The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

And what movies we saw! All the actors and actresses whose photographs I collected, with their look of eternity! Their radiance, their eyes, their faces, their voices, the suavity of their movements! Their clothes! Even in prison movies, the stars shone in their prison clothes as if tailors had accompanied them in their downfall.

A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere I went, I sensed the tracks of the wolf that had tried to devour the city. But Paris proved inedible, as it had been ever since its tribal beginnings on an island in the Seine, the Ile de la Cité.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.