Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals - Theodore Zeldin

I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don't, with people who are different from myself.

I have chosen to write about women, because I am not one myself, and because I have always preferred to write about subjects which do not tempt me to be so arrogant as to believe that I can ever fully understand them, but above all because many women seem to me to be looking at life with fresh eyes, and their autobiographies, in various forms, are the most original part of contemporary literature

Anlamak, anlaşmazlığı ortadan kaldırmaz, ama anlaşmazlığı zenginlik veren bir deneyime dönüştürür; insanda, insanlığın çeşitliliğinin gizemli dünyasına kabul edildiğine ve yalnızca kısmen yaşıyor olmaktan kurtulabileceğine dair bir his yaratır.