While they're still alive, people can become ghosts.

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that.

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells.

An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.