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

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.

Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.