"After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life."

"I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside."

"What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness."

"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."

"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father."

"I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that."

"Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units."

"My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, 'You can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.'"