“People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.”

“I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.”

“People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges.”

“Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.”

“And still everything’s the same, even though I did my best to get as far away as I could.”

“Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.”

“Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.”