A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.

Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

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

Old age is life's parody.

She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.