The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I’ve sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.

how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.

I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies.

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.