Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

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.

If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.

I have found my voice again and the art of using it.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

I want nothing from love, in short, but love.