If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get on the bus and go faster and get rich... I just didn’t like that kind of lifestyle. I love to read books, to listen to music.

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

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering if people jump to their feet and shout stuff like 'It'll rain tomorrow if a polar bear eats the stars tonight!

Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people.

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.