Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.