My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.

I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in an afterlife or not, whether I believe in God or not, I can only answer you that all things are possible. And if all things are possible, heaven and hell and the angels are also possible. They're not to be ruled out.

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.