For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

The doctor used to tell me that every person about to die becomes a music box playing the melody that best describes his life, his character, and his hopes. For some, it's a popular waltz; for others, a march.

For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never.

On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.