What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless don’t necessarily end up so. That’s the feeling I have, as someone who’s felt this, who’s experienced it.

It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

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

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.

It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are like a reservoir of stories, and if I can act as a similar kind of "reservoir," albeit a modest one, that would make me very happy.