Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.