You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then — we went on dancing.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

I never stopped reading.