It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.

Rome is everybody's memory.

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines.

Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.

To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.

I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.