With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to.

...I am much better now at ambiguities.

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.