"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."

"Sometimes I don't know whether I'm a god or a devil. Sometimes I don't know whether I'm a saint or a sinner."

"I’m not a romantic, I’m a realist. I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in right now."

"It is not the business of the writer to be a politician or a preacher."

"I want to be remembered as a writer who wrote about the human heart in conflict with itself."