My Mother Did What Many Men Do.

As A Writer, I Am An Intellectual. I Believe In The Ideals Of The Enlightenment, I Believe In The Written Word, In Dialogue And In Truth. I Hate Lies More Than Anything Else. Most Of The Time I React By Writing.

Novels Are . . . An Unsurpassed Form To Understand People.

What Annoys A Person Who Suicides? The Life Itself. Boredom. Tiredness That Descends On Every Morning When You Look At Yourself At The Mirror.

I Can Still Remember. I Was Ill, And I Was Seven, And My Father Didn't Want Me To Just Read Children's Books. He Came With Conan Doyle. I Tried, And I Liked It. I Think The First I Read Was 'the Sign Of The Four'; 'study In Scarlet' Was The Next One. Then I Guess I Stayed Home A Few Extra Days From School To Read.

I Do Not Understand How On Earth You Can Become A Writer Without Seeing The World.