The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.

When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.

Love is worth whatever it costs.

Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily transforms them into a special series of moments held together by a major emotion.

Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.