Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.