Writing is a calling, not a choice.

I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room.

I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?

People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.