All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.
I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.
If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.
I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
People's opinions don't interfere with me.
Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.
Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.