The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

Then, without any warning, we both straightened up, turned towards each other, and began to kiss. After that, it is difficult for me to speak of what happened. Such things have little to do with words, so little, in fact, that it seems almost pointless to try to express them. If anything, I would say that we were falling into each other, that we were falling so fast and so far that nothing could catch us.

To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels into films. It's very difficult to do, and it usually doesn't work. There are exceptions, but generally speaking, one feels disappointed with the result.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain.

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.