Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

A creator always needs excuses.

For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration comes is false. Imagination floods us with suggestions all the time, from all directions.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep down I feel that criticism of my work-which is the most sincere and authentic vision of myself-is unsuitable and immodest, whether it is favorable or unfavorable.

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.