Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.

My heart was beating like an army on the march.

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.