“Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.”

“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that fall during which he doesn’t know where or whether it will come to an end, and unless his longing for human contact awakens in him the strength to rise, purged, from the ashes.”

“To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would they say if one asked them what they wanted instead?”

“It needs a lot of courage to admit to an action that one is ashamed of and knows to be wrong. One's reluctance to hurt someone else is just an excuse; in fact it is lack of courage.”

“Far better that false hope should lull you,Than that sheer blackness yawn at you”

“...there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.”

“I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.”