If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on the outside.

My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad.

Oh, escape is easy once you have the right plan.' 'Do we have the right plan?' 'Not yet.' 'Do we have any plan?' 'Not yet.

I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

Even the way the kids react with media today is so completely different than what most movies have. We just wanted to make a movie that challenged them.

I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences watching the show each week.

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

I shook up the world.

The cheapest energy is the energy you don't use in the first place.