Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.

My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.