But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.