A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind..

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes..

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them..

I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someon….

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation..

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and wr….

I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything..

My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights..

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination..

A story is not only meaning, it's music as well..