Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it.

Cooking can be like foreplay.

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.