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.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.