Wherever it's good, whatever strange, faraway land, let's go there, let's stay in that place alone.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.