“The impression that what is extraordinary is real, and that the real is the extraordinary.”

“It's a wonderful, inspiring feeling to have real friends who love and understand you. I have never had that feeling before.”

“What will become of me? I do not know where am I going or what tomorrow will bring.”

“I really don't know what's happened to me, but I have changed from top to toe. I am living in a strange mixture of memories of yesterday and today.”

“Being free to suffer alone is itself a consolation.”

“This book made me feel strangely awkward, because I'm afraid of finding my own story in it. I take books too seriously.”

“Now that everybody thinks he looks a little Slavic, it annoys me. I don't want that to be the reason I find him charming. I found him charming for no reason, because he is who he is.”