“When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.”

“Envy is when you want what someone else has. Jealousy’s when you also don’t want them to have it.”

“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it?What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know where it will end.”

“To believe in what you don’t know is as true as to believe in what you do know as long as life is an illusion.”

“If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets.”

“I think there’s nothing left for me. I don’t think that for everyone else.”“So what do they have that you don’t at this point?”I press my lips together. I don’t want to talk about this anymore. I don’t want to talk about how everyone has something even if they don’t really have it anymore, that what they had makes them strong enough for this, to keep going.”