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

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.

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.

In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.

I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.

A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.