I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.

Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

Life is weather. Life is meals.

To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.

Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.