"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all the ancestors that…"

"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."

"I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat."

"I have been blind for many years, but I have seen more than most men."

"I have always been more interested in books than in people."