Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.

When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.

As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

Literature is not an instruction manual.

You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.