Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger.
Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.
old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.
I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.
France eats more conciously, more intelligently, than any other nation.
An idea discovered is much better possessed.
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.
There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are. . These occasions are rare, but they happen - despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths.