It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.

In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.

Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?"

We're in a world that is run by accountants and I think that it's sad in many ways.

I do think that someone who decides to devote themselves entirely to the spiritual life, that that is more meritorious.

What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.

A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.