When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.

I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.