Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.

Come. We must go deeper with no justice and no jokes.

When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.

There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene.

You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you. Those men in the desert were smarter than you. They assumed he could be useful. So they saved him, but when he was no longer useful they left him.