There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that’s f…

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

Memory belongs to the imagination.

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood.

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

On n'e chappe pas a' son sort. One cannot escape destiny.

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdu…

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e ve…

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms…

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader [as well as the main character] does not view…

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

Deux me' tresou un peu plusse parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.

- Alain Robbe-Grillet