I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.
I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.
I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.
I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet.
At the end of the '90s, I was very bored with the usual models, so I discovered a new generation that impressed me with their fresh look. I still keep working with models like Gisele Bundchen and Kate Moss, and I am still looking for new, interesting faces. Life is about discovery, and you should never stop searching.
I think I always have to feel fresh start, because I am getting old!
Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.
Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent years fretting about whether I'd ever meet anyone to have a baby with.
With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts with great forward momentum. Then there seems to be a period where it slows down a bit, and other things intervene. Then I gain momentum.
I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.
Although I am not Jewish, I have been to many Friday night Shabbats at my friends houses, and I absolutely love it. It's a great and inspiring tradition to keep the family close.
I like a girl with a good personality that I can have fun with. If I am taking you out on a date, let's eat burgers and cheese fries.
I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.
I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.
I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.
I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.
