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.

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

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

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

I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

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.

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