Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

To advise is not to compel.

Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.