The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

Strong faith doesn’t give up

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.

Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.

History repeats itself and that's just how it goes.

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.

Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

You have to manage a system. The system doesn't manage itself.