I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'

We can hear God better, when we shut up faster.

Those who say they don't have the time to take care of their skin, will sooner or later have to find the time for corrective treatments.

I don't know how well I can fight, or run, or judge, but when the blade comes, I swear on whatever they want me to swear on, I'll stop it, with my body if nothing else.

My dog is half pit-bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!

To live as fully as completely as possible to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.