France is certainly the country I prefer of all the countries I know.

If the French like my work, then I shall feel that I have, to some extent, succeeded.

I love Paris. I think Paris is the most beautiful and marvellous city in the world.

You are the only one to have understood and been able to put into words all sorts of things which I have tried to do.

I know that it is quite a privilege that the greatest writer of our time has written texts about me.