The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.

I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.

Be fearless, be brave, be bold, love yourself

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.

If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.