Not all things can be expressed through words, not all the words reflect the truth.

Wish for the best, prepare for the worst

A representational photograph says, 'This is what Vienna looked like.' An interpretational photograph goes one better and says, 'This is what Vienna was like. This is how I felt about it.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.

I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary.

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.