A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.

Trust is fine, but control is better.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

I always go for confident girls!

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.

I have a Pinterest, and if you look there you'll see the things I really like and adore, have crushes on, and there's a lot of stuff from Riccardo's [Tisci] line on there.

I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

It's good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.

Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.

You’ve got to embrace what you don’t know.

I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.