自己
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
"Exile is not just a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room."
The greatest victory is the victory over oneself.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
"Every city has its own secret rhythm, and those who listen can hear its stories."
The first duty of a man is to think for himself.
We do not see things as they are; we see them as we are.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."
"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."
"Jeder hat seine eigene Geschichte, aber nicht jeder kann sie erzählen."
We are all trapped by our own narratives.
Fiction allows us to live multiple lives, to see through eyes not our own.
The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.
I like the idea that every life has its own rhythm, that people are not simply points moving through time.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
I don't think I'm a writer who's interested in answers. I'm interested in questions.
The purpose of fiction is to take you out of your own life and make you aware of other lives.