I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

It’s amazing how my mind opens up right when I have to run on the treadmill. I’ve finished three chapters rather than run a mile.

[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

If I were to give myself a pat on the back, it would be for sticking with bookmaking as my primary way of expressing myself over the span of fifty years.

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

Most of the time I just keep to myself. I think like what it would be like to be... someone else.

Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.

There is someone that I must meet again. And until that day… not even Death himself can take my life away!