Quotes

Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

Literature was born on the day when a boy came crying 'wolf, wolf' and there was no wolf behind him.

One is always at home in one's past.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

Our imagination flies – we are its shadow on the earth.

Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

Words without experience are meaningless.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.