I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me.
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
What you call types of mind are only mental ages.
The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.
Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
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