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.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.

I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

Love is worth whatever it costs.