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“I was in the habit of sleeping with a cat.”
“In my childhood, I never saw my father without a Smith and Wesson at his side; in my adolescence, in turn, I never saw him without a Dalloz under his arm.”
“Books didn’t find in me a very faithful friend,” he confessed, “nor did the professors find a conscientious student. The only things that interested me were sports, girls, adventures, celebrities—in short, life.”
“I am, and will always be, a man of pleasure.”
“The man of action still lived beneath the diplomat’s clothes,”
