« He had no more wanted to return to Duck than Ulysses to Penelope. What was the Odyssey, if not the chronicle of an adventurer who loved Circé the magician, the nymph Calypso, to whom Nausicaa's hand was promised and who never ceases, deceiving appearances, to postpone his return? A man who, on the night when the gods forcibly lay him on the beach of Ithaca, is so furious with his fate that he indulges in the most useless and bloodthirsty of massacres, when pronouncing his only name of Ulysses would have sufficed for the suitors to bow. »

« I think the pretty brunette I was talking to about Raymond Queneau and who said to me: "Raymond who?" worked hard for my personal balance. »

« What are you thinking? I think the memory I have of some of my mistresses is even more unfaithful than I am. »