You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

The only regret I have is that I couldn't teach you a lesson in humanity and humility. A mother should not depend on his son and that's the one mistake I committed.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The more you Learn, The more you earn

Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

When we say yes to the grace of God, we are learning how to die.

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.

I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"

If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.