The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.