“Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.”

“I don't live in France, I live in myself.”

“You want to be French, Mary Frances, that's your problem, but instead you're just another American."I went to the window for that one an saw a marriage disintegrate before my eyes. Poor Mary Frances in her beige beret... "Americans," he repeated. "We don't live in in France, we live in Virginia. Vienna, Virginia. Got it?"I looked at this guy and knew for certain that if we'd met at a party he'd claim to live in Washington, D.C. Ask for a street address, and he'd look away, mumbling, "Well, just outside D.C.”

“sixty years old and lives for the 3 f's--friends, family, and France.”

“France is great because she is France.”

“The French have the right respect for dogs--in France we chiens get to go to lunch and dinner anytime, anywhere.”