Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

All language is but a poor translation.

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.