It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Love that hurts is better than hate that tickles.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.

True education does not fill our minds with facts but teach us how to think to gain wisdom.

Motor cut. Forced landing. Hit cow. Cow died. Scared me.

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.

The integrity of China was more important than [the people] in Tiananmen Square.

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, awards shows.