I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.

Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like... I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.