Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.

Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them.

Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.