You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.

Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.