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

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Amelie Nothomb

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

- 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

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.

- Amelie Nothomb