Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman..

A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny's house but this light admits no ambiguities and, here, she will b….

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history ….

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe..

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero..

Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?.

His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with ….

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class….

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar.

Spindly branches of buttercups were secreted among gleaming stems still moist at the roots from last night's rain that had washedand refreshed the en….

The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do..

To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geomet….

The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why sh….

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives..

There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms..

So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly an object created in the mode of….

The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing..

She stood lost in eternity wearing a crazy dress, watching the immense sky..

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off..

The kind of power mothers have is enormous..

I desire therefore I exist..