French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82)

God is the composer

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.

One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just end up thinking, who is this person?

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more

The music has to be as interesting. It has to keep taking you into places that you're at least not used to.

I don't ever feel that it's necessary to say certain things. I think we can be very suggestive. I think we can allude to certain things.

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins.