“It was a vivid memory for someone so young but one which has stayed with me forever.”
“The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other. It is only the vividness of memory that keeps the dead alive forever; a writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as our personal memories. ”
“Beautiful men stay beautiful forever. That which is lovely remains so, preserved behind glass in one's mind.”
“Nothing is sadder than someone who has lost his memory, and the church which has lost its memory is in the same state of senility.”
“Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?”
“I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.”