Cooking is revolution and creation.

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

The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.