Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

Creation is filled with soul-sick folks, colored and white, never knowing where they belong. They tangle everybody else up in their grief.

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

I just want to do really good work.

I never act my characters - I am them.

I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I had returned to God.

Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

If I had the knack I'd sing like Cherry flakes falling

Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death.