The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

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.

We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth--the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

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

If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.

Being wrong about important things is exhausting.