It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

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

Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is

Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps is not just pointless, but quite risky, too. What I see myself doing, rather, is writing novels where, in my own way, I dismantle the fictional world of Kafka that itself dismantled the existing novelistic system.

Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.

In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.