It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones. - Françoise Sagan

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.

No one, but no one, ever behaves "well" in bed unless they love or are loved — two conditions seldom fulfilled.