Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.

I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.