The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.