Late style gets simpler and shorter, and here, I'm getting more abundant as I get older!

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.

I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.

The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.