I want to say less, and it's easier to say less.

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!