Books do furnish a room.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

Writing is above all a question of instinct.