“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?”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“..the writer’s obsession – the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.”

“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.”