“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”

“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”

 “And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.”


“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”

“I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.”

“if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.”

 “She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.”