Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.

We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.

Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows).

Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.

I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.