A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

Society decides when we get old. But the spirit never ages.

I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.