I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.