The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over The Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.

The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.

There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over The Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.

Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.