The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment.

Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing.