The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

He was carrying a suitcase with clothing in order to stay and another just like it with almost two thousand letters that she had written him. They were arranged by date in bundles ties with colored ribbons, and they were all unopened.

A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.