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.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

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

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.

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

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.