if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.

Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied.

Do those clowns really believe what they teach?