There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.

Everything begins in Paris.

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.

I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.