What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!

Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.

When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream.

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible.

This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.