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.

For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.