Cooking is revolution and creation.

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.

Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in the past is as though it never was, my first drafts are so shapeless that it seems impossible to go on with the attempt at all, right up until the moment - always imperceptible, there, too, there is a break - when it is has become impossible not to finish it.