At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look at flowers, I go look at the garden, I go look at a museum, but it's all coming back to writing.

There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.