Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.

A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.

Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.