The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether.

I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well.

"I write to escape myself, but I always end up finding myself."

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Confidence is key, but arrogance will destroy you.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.