If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.

Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.

Critics are like eunuchs: they know how, but they can't do it.

Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.

The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

Like a fire alarm going off in your ear, sulfur up your nose, mouth full of sour milk, reality is what it is – you deal with it.

Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.

Clearly, politics is a team sport. Trump is not so much of a team player.

Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

I've never designed a bicycle, so one day that would be fun to do.

An individual chooses and makes himself.

Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers.