One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.

It's so sad that no one writes down the things we go through, and even worse - no one will ever know about it, no one will ever see or hear about it, no one will ever be able to restore.

Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

Fiction has the ability to show us what we don’t know and what doesn’t happen.

We do tend to believe things while we're hearing or reading them. Afterwards, it's another matter, when the book is closed and the voice stops speaking.

an odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.

We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter of chance.

Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.

Life itself is the journey of the mind toward the unknown infinite wilderness. Get lost.

You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the  truth has no twin.

You just know something is amiss, when you look at someone and long for something that is not yours or you cannot have. It's an absence--a loss of a heartbeat.

Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

economy spoils pleasure

Character is a perfectly educated will.

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.