Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

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

I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.

Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.