I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for….

To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life c….

Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful tr….

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in Ameri….

How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues, proportioned to no pur….

Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated….

Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars..

I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do." "A rule?" "If you have to choose be….

I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. W….

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else..

I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?".

Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's somethi….

I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no on….

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous..

Artists are those who can evade the verbose..

The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady lib….

Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to b….

My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else..

Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart..

Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same..

If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get on the bus and go faster and get rich.….