The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.