An author writes only half the book. The rest is written by readers.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

English saved my life.

Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.