The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son "A Personal Matter," I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must find the link between ourselves, our "personal matter," and society.

It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.