As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

I had seen the world as either white or black.It is only when I read the pages of her diary that I understood why the sky looked so grey.

That's the thing about hands, I love to hold hands because it brings comfort to me to feel I'm holding onto someone I love.

Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

I really never felt any tremendous aggravation or separation.

How do I ask my shrink to stop responding to everything I say with, Too much information! and then giggling behind a pillow?

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

That's the most comfortable place for me. In the beginning, yes, I was nervous going on stage. I was not a natural performer. I really had to acquire that skill.

The greatest test of faith is when you don't get what you want, but still you are able to say Thank You Lord.

No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.