What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.