Patrick Modiano said this quote

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ...

~ Patrick Modiano

Many years afterwards, we attempt to solve puzzles that were not mysteries at the time and we try to decipher half-obliterated letters from a language that is too old and whose alphabet we don't even know.

~ Patrick Modiano

Did you see her again in France? I asked him.”“No. When I got to France, she was already dead. She committed suicide ...”“Why?”“She often told me she was frightened of getting old...

~ Patrick Modiano

But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain.

~ Patrick Modiano