I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.