To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.

The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.