France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.

Don't let misery bring you down.

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have.

It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.