When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.

One cannot revoke a true happiness.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?

In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.