I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

It's like a mathematical law, Grace.

I feel I'm discovering something new, a different rhythm, and I guess these rhythms have a lot to do with walking, too, but it's a longer trajectory now. I'm traveling greater distances with each sentence. But I don't write about walking that much anymore.

There is a double rhythm in all human beings. We are binary beings - two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears. Two legs for walking. And the heartbeat thumping in our chest mirrors that.

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.

We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.