A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

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

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

If you think you’re the only person for whom life is painful, you’re wrong. And if you don’t mind letting yourself die like a dog, at least have the decency to remember that there are those of us who do care – although, to tell the truth, I don’t see why?

It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.