Zitat des Tages von Peter Mayle:
It's very nice to meet the people who read my books.
I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.
No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.
I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.
Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.
There are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place.
I have a robust sense of humour which helps me deal with problems.
In the south of France the phones cut in and out, the electricity isn't particularly reliable. I think many people would get very irritated with that life.
The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.
There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.