I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.

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

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.

I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.