I had the elated, otherworldly feeling I sometimes get entering the sphere of another's life, when for a moment changing my banal habits and living like seems entirely possible, a feeling that always...
Let's stand under a tree, she said. Why?Because it's nicer.Maybe you should sit on a chair, and I'll stand above you, like they always do with husbands and wives.That's stupid.Why's it stupid?Because...
No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is.
My mother was the force around which our world turned. Unlike our father, who spent his life in the clouds, my mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge...
I made a point of answering the question I received with some frequency from journalists, Do you think books can change people's lives? (which really meant, Do you actually think anything you could wr...
Franz Kafka is Dead He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. Come down! they cried to him. Come down! Come down! Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waite...
Atunci am văzut-o. E ciudat ce poate urzi mintea când inima o îmboldește. Arăta altfel decât mi-o aminteam eu. Și totuși. Era aceeași. Ochii: așa am recunoscut-o. Mi-am spus: Vasăzică așa ți se arată...