A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.

You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.