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

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.

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

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.