... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.
Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.
I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.