I’m worried that the chicken may be overcooked …’ she said…

“His mouth open, he fell asleep, because a man always falls asleep in the end. One weeps, one shrieks, one rages, one despairs, and…

— Georges Simenon

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

— Georges Simenon

I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

— Georges Simenon

I have made love to ten thousand women.

— Georges Simenon

“The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made…

— Georges Simenon

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

— Georges Simenon

“The change in the girl's face was more subtle, almost invisible; it was not joy, there was no sparkle, but something like a serene…

— Georges Simenon

Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not…

— Georges Simenon

“She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light. She came forward like a film star, or rather like the ideal…

— Georges Simenon

And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all…

— Georges Simenon

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

— Georges Simenon

“presse-papiers, entrouvrant”

— Georges Simenon

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little…

— Georges Simenon

“They never addressed each other by name, nor were they in the habit of exchanging endearments. What was the point, since both felt that,…

— Georges Simenon

“At five-thirty the rain began to fall in great, heavy drops which bounced off the pavement before they spread out into black spots. At…

— Georges Simenon