“The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.”

“The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.”

“The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.”

“A human's best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow.”

“See what's inside a drop of water. The whole seed of the universe. Come, come. See what's inside a drop of blood. The composition of life. It's all there. Hate as well. We approach the mystery of life, but it's impossible to understand the mystery of hate. The kind of hate that causes people not only to kill, but to want to erase you from the census of births. I have to concentrate on that mystery. Read everything there is. It has to be in a drop of blood. It has to have its chemistry.”

“A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.”

“Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.”