He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.

...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.

She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky.

...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.

He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

I don't know how long I kept at it...I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still.It didn't seem to be summer any more

I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.

I don't like kissing on camera. It's bad enough to be caught kissing by your parents. But when you have a whole crew watching you, it's a little weird.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure

No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules

There is nothing to do except to be just who you are. You have the right to feel beautiful and enjoy it.

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.

The best measure of success, is how you deal with failure