Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the dressing table mirror, his own odor on her skin. A vague thought made her shudder: "The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.