For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.

I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author I also want to stimulate discussion.

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.