Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

Ice is for death and endings.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It’s the indifference I don’t know how to process.

When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

We need to start prioritizing people, not polar bears.

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality.

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

You won’t let me buy any clothes. Now you won’t let me buy a road map, either! I need to spend some money or I’m going to go crazy!

I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.