Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,
but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.