Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!

It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world.

What a plague love is!

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.

Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?