“J'étais jeune, plus jeune que je ne le croyais. Ma naïveté cependant é...” — Romain Gary Quote

“J'étais jeune, plus jeune que je ne le croyais. Ma naïveté cependant était était vieille et désabusée. Éternelle en vérité: je la retrouve dans chaque génération nouvelle, depuis celle des "rats" de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, de 1947, jusqu'à la beat generation californienne qu'il m'arrive de fréquenter parfois, pour m'amuser à reconnaître, en d'autres lieux et d'autres visages, les grimaces de mes vingt ans.”

“Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.”

“The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.”

“She was standing at the door, and the sheer visual delight, the sharp ache of happiness, something like the sight of fleeing moments of beauty that are so much a part of the life’s vanishing act, with its total absence of forever, filled him as usual with that greed, that tyrannical urge to seize, to keep and preserve and never lose again, which is perhaps how twenty thousand years ago the first image of an antelope came to be painted by an artist upon a rock. Then she put her blouse on and Time, the old robber baron, went by, carrying his loots away.”

“It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.”

“A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.”

“I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.”

“Reveal to the people and make them experience God first before you make them church members”

“Your face, now confined to this tiny screen, radiates elegantly. Time, it seems, has been kind to you.”

“President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.”