“L'incarnation de ma négligence en matière de contraception me regardait en face.”

“... il n'y a pas d'amour raisonnable. Si l'on vivait une vie de seule raison, on raterait l'amour. (Rosa Candida, p.317 - et voir tout le dialogue qui précède aussi)”

“Ceux qui arrivent à entrer un court instant dans la vie des autres peuvent avoir plus d'importance que ceux qui y sont installés depuis des années. (Rosa Candida, p.136)”

“Can a person who has been brought up in the heart of a thick dark forest, where one has to beat a path through multiple layers of trees just to take a letter to the post office, have any conception of what it’s like to spend one’s entire childhood waiting for a single tree to grow?”

“Okay, you need to eat something. Before we do anything else, you have to eat." "I just did."I gave him a hard look, but his face was entirely innocent. He was fucking with me, right? He had to be. "Man cannot live by pussy alone," I said.”

“When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very tough, sheer agony. In that kind of harrowing situation, I always go away and cut myself off from the world. Also, I sober up immediately when there is genuine bad news in my life; I never face it with alcohol in my brain. I just rented a house in Palm Springs and sat there and just suffered for a couple of weeks. I suffered there until I was strong enough to face it.”

“Pour la première fois, en buvant des cerisesà l'eau-de-vi', je me saoûlai. C'était aux Andelys, je crois, et ma famille me regardait fort amusée. Elle ne pensait pas qu'un jour mes fortes cuites la feraient un peu déchanter”