You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.
Paul AusterPeople who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.
Paul AusterThere are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.
Paul Auster