A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.... You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
