Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

Memory is a great betrayer.

At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.

the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.