Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it’s not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. It’s not so important where it leads. that’s why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story.

Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.

If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.

If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.