You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.

Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.

I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.

The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.