Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.