The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

Biology is destiny only for girls.

Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.

They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.

Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.