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.

I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

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.

Freedom is a public library.

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.