When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.

I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing.

I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.

A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.

When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.

As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.

Everything was new, now I’m a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.