He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

In the end all books are written for your friends.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.

I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.

She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.

a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.