“he is the kind of man who breakes biscuits in two and saves the other half for later”

“A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.”

“It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.”

“A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.”

“The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.”

“So much of his life seemed to be like this now, a blur of days without anything to define them from each other, like episodes of a soap he watched out of habit, even though none of the characters interested him.”

“All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper — the weight of a human heart.”