I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound.

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.