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

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.

‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite grown accustomed to tourists. You still feel a genuineness that no longer exists in countries where tourism has been industrially developed.