As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.

This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say

You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.

We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind

Then Diana puts too many murders into [her stories]. She says most of the time she doesn’t know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

God has given us a message that is not only for past times and this time, but for all time.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

I don't know what 'loyal' means.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.