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.

He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.

curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

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

No one talks about money more than people who have too much of it.

It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.