Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

He who awaits much can expect little.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.