“[It's] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97”

“[It's] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97”

“As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65”