Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

There are no ordinary cats.

- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!