I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.