I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.

Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.

I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.