In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.

Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same.

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.

The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.