I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.

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

Love cannot be measured by its duration.

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

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.