When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped ….

it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself..

Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology, it is a matter of cleanliness. In just this same w….

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you ….

Mum said, "It is the thought that counts." And I said, "I know, which is why I am ringing the authorities right now. Anyone who thinks like she does ….

We must find a way to replace yearning for what life has withheld from us with gratitude for what we have been given..

The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He….

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams..

I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live..

The genius is making a way out of no way..

The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific..

I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible..

If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. An….

You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people..

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way..

Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again..

happy all life for ever.

The power of a smile goes a long way. My mom taught me that..

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down..

The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point..

One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with the poetics of failure, and the way in which all….