I'm not a character in any of my books.

I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

Good writing is rewriting.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.