I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss-you can't do it alone.