I have found out that friendship is quite as important as love and it isn't any easier than love.

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.