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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

I have a longing for fiction, to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

I am happy because I am no longer an author.

I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.

Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.