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.

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.

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

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

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.

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