Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

Splendid couple - slept with both of them.

Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.

I expect to pass through this world but once and therefore if there is anybody that I want to kick in the crutch I had better kick them in the crutch now, for I do not expect to pass this way again.

I'm a man more dined against than dining.

Jealousy devours us, we are its dish of the day. (Jalousie nous dévore. - Nous sommes son plat du jour)

My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are gullible, anybody can convince them.

I love my friends. I love my love-life. I love my hobbies. I love eating.

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.