It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.