Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.

Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own - with whatever guts you can muster

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.

We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.