Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .