Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.

If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.

It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives relative. If you read my novels then you may feel, "I have the same experience as this narrative", or "I have the same idea as this novel". It means that your narrative and mine sympathize, concord and resonate together.

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.