I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.