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.

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

Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?

The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

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.

You’ll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.