Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

- Amelie Nothomb

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

- Amelie Nothomb

Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou

- Amelie Nothomb

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

- Amelie Nothomb

God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.

- Amelie Nothomb

Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write about my relation…

- Amelie Nothomb

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

- Amelie Nothomb

Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singe…

- Amelie Nothomb

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

- Amelie Nothomb