If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan.

The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life - I didn’t. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That’s why I didn’t study literature

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.