When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.
I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.