Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

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.

There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference. But from the moment that you involve yourself fully in writing a novel, for example, or an essay, then you are involved as a woman, in the same way that you can't deny your nationality - you are French, you are a man, you are a woman... all this passes into the writing.

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.