The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

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.

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

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.

If you cannot change the reality of other people, their reality will become yours.

There is this pain of love. You experience it some moments. It begins like a strange gnawing in your heart. It then spreads slowly. Spreads to the whole body. You fall deeply into it. This feeling.

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.

Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.

I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists.