A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!

The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

We fall in love more deeply when were unhappy.

...every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart.

I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.