curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

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

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

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.

I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.