"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."

"For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting."

"As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it."

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

"If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?"