"Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together."

"The writer is an ordinary man, not a spokesman for the people, and that literature can only be the voice of one indiv…"

"I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly."

"I came to the riverbank. The sand underfoot crunches and sounds like my grandmother sighing. She is fond of chatterin…"

"The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything."

"A good man never fights with a woman."

"Grandfather, when you saw the tiger were you scared? Bad people scare me, not tigers. Grandfather, have you ever run …"

"They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack."

"She says she doesn’t know what to do! But he says coldly that he knows what he wants to do, but he can’t."

"Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell."