生活
We have on this earth what makes life worth living.
I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to live.
Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Writing is a profession for those who cannot live without writing.
Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
A life without examination is not worth living.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
The absurdity of life doesn't make it meaningless, but rather gives it a special kind of meaning.
"Schreiben ist eine Art zu leben."
Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.
We are all given one thing by which our lives are measured, one determination.
The writer's life is a life of sentences.
You build your life around the truth, and then the truth changes.
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.
A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.
We all live in the wreckage of our ancestors' lives.
The people in my stories are not heroes or villains. They are just people trying to get through life.