Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

There is always something missing that torments me.

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.

You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.

I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?

The essence of good government is trust.

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me.

I was supposed to be a professional rollerblader!

Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

Political correctness is a minefield

We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared