Because We Don't Have Much Time Together,

Luckily I Haven't Fallen Into The Trap, Which Has Claimed So Many Writers, Of Living From Day To Day Thinking 'ah, I'll Write A Book About That.'

I Thought Maybe I Would Become A God, Or A Goddess, Or A President Or A Nobel Prize Winner.

If You Admire Yourself In The Mirror, Let It Be In Fear And Not Delight, Because The Only Thing That Beauty Will Bring To You Is Terror Of Losing It.

Definitely. More And More I Understand That It's Very Fine Not To Know Where You Come From. There Is Line In A Song By Georges Brassens [french Singer-songwriter]: 'les Imbciles Heureux Qui Sont Ns Quelquepart.' I Will Never Be One Of The Happy Stupid That Were Born Somewhere. This Way Of Life Is Excellent For The Imagination. It Develops Your Paranoia. You Feel Paranoid When You Don't Understand A Country, And Being Paranoiac Is Excellent For Fiction.

Of Course You Have Memories, And These Memories Are Convincing. But It's Really At The Moment When I Write Them Down - When I Write About My Relationship With That Japanese Boy In Ni D'eve, Ni D'adam - That They Reach A Degree Of Reality Which Is Incandescent, That I've Really Conquered A Story, Understood It And Feel That It Is Really Part Of Me.