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.

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

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.

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

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

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.