The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.