I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.

What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement.