As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

I have found my voice again and the art of using it.

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.

Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.