“I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.”

“--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again.”

“If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.”

“For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.”

“I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.”

“My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”

“Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.”

“This is torture, torture, torture.Why is this so hard?? I survived whole days not talking to you before. What happened???I'm not as nice in the world today. I am scowly. I am trying to be good and ...”

“War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.”