Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'

Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it

It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.

I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great.

When one man becomes more important than the country he's supposed to be leading, this will always create a problem.

Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DoD spends taxpayer dollars.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without.

We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.