Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.

I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.

I am the most interesting book of all.

To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.

When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.

Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!

I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?

Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

I don't care about the critics.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.

Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.

He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)