but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.