When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.