We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

You see in others who you are.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.