I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.