A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

I've done so many dramas in my life, and people don't even know I came from comedy.

I am not the kind of girl that gets in trouble.

Only do acting, if you don't want to do anything else. And know that it's a tough journey with a lot of rejection along the way. You have to have a lot of self-belief.

If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.

Let's meet as little as we can