It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.

In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and so on. It's a little boring to make up stories. So many people think that it's better to be very close to reality and to recount one's life as it is rather than to fictionalize, as they say, that is to transpose, and therefore to cheat.

Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time