I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.

pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.

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

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.

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.

No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.