It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.

As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.