My life is a reading list.

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.

All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down.

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.