In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.

I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself.

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.

When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget.

We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

Don't lose your head over love. I learned a long time ago that those who love you do not understand you, and those who understand you, do not love you.