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

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.

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 first time I saw her, Everything in my head went quiet.

You really are Captain Oblivious.

You die in the middle of your life.

I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.