For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never.

On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.

I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ...

I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen toa man: several women turned round as he passed them.

Did you see her again in France?" I asked him.”“No. When I got to France, she was already dead. She committed suicide ...”“Why?”“She often told me she was frightened of getting old...

Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.

We only get what we can deal with."The real voyage of discovery consists...in seeing with new eyes

When you get the red letters right, it all makes sense.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.

I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.