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.

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.

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.'

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there's nowhere else I'd rather be.

It's exploding bags, aerosol cans Southbound buses, Peter Pan They left it up to us again I thought you knew the drill It's kill or be killed.

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.

Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers.

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.