I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.

I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.