We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.

Believing absolutely everything that appears in print.

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.

I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is. If I stayed like that, I would miss out on everything good that these few days with him might offer.

You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do. The book is much more important than the writer.

You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.

Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.