The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it wasn't all planned out from the start, it came out of the process.

Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.

I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

When boys unite hearts they become gentlemen.

They are rich who have true friends.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

Timing is everything in life and in golf.

They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.

I like doing energetic things.

You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.