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

If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.

The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.

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.

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.

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

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.