Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

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.

O holy Sunday, let your darkness not come along my way. Let her nurture internal and external world, as I start my personal day.

I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.

A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.

The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.

You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!'... It's the same with motorcycles.