I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.

A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!