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

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.

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.

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.'

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 mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.

Whatever with the past has gone the best is always yet to come.

The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

Legendary service is one of the criteria that sets one company apart from its competitors. It's the mark of a truly authentic company - you just can't fake caring!

Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.

Life is more important than architecture.

I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.