Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.

Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.

I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

Time is an encoded pattern of fabric woven with information & energy.

When You Try To Control Everything, Remember, It's Just A Matter of Time You'll End Up Losing Everything....

There is only one happiness in life to love and be loved.

The underdog winning is the romantic position.

You don't get nothing and like it.

The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?

Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels.

Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.

I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.