A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.

Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.

- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.