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

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

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...

No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting a nationality...

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl that's pretty seductive.

It's well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being re-discovered with great excitement.

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

Many find their heart when they have lost their head.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

What are you?" I rasped. It smiled. "Whatever scares you.

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.