I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

The Greatest Enemy of Confidence is Inexperience

Seclusion wasn't good for anyone

I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library.

Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

I allow the healing power in my body to manifest perfect health.

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

Gently to hear, kindly to judge.