Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we will die, and who will ever understand any of this? And maybe we remember nothing most of all when we put our hands on our hearts and carry on about not forgetting.

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.

I think empathy's a terrible danger for a writer.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

I think writing should be about change.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.