A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

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.

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

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

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.