If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.

Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

I always believe things are going to work out.