The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.