My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.