Quotes by : Jean-Dominique Bauby

Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.

Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside....

Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing quadriplegic.....

I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear,....

In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.

We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.

Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk,....

I could spend whole days at Cinecittà. There, I am the greatest director of all time. On the town side,....