Tenderness Is A Deeper Instinct Than Seduction,

Without Beauty A Girl Is Unhappy Because She Has Missed Her Chance To Be Loved. People Do Not Jeer At Her, They Are Not Cruel To Her, But It Is As If She Were Invisible, No Eyes Follow Her As She Walks. People Feel Uncomfortable When They Are With Her. They Find It Easier To Ignore Her. A Girl Who Is Exceptionally Beautiful, On The Other Hand, Who Has Something Which Too Far Surpasses The Customary Seductive Freshness Of Adolescence, Appears Somehow Unreal. Great Beauty Seems Invariably To Portend Some Tragic Fate.

I Think It's More Difficult To Live Without A Religion, Definitely.

When You Read The Koran, You Give Up. At Least The Bible Is Very Beautiful Because Jews Have An Extraordinary Literary Talent.

Rumor Had It That He Was Homosexual; In Reality, In Recent Years, He Was Simply A Garden-variety Alcoholic.

As A Teenager, Michel Believed That Suffering Conferred Dignity On A Person. Now He Had To Admit That He Had Been Wrong. What Conferred Dignity On People Was Television.