You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?

Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.

Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.

I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.