I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.

...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.

The truth is what hurts

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.