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.

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.

People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.

I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don't know what's going to happen next.

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.