“Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, the fear of not being able to write keeps me from writing.”

“I don’t feel survivors’ guilt but rather survivors’ indignation.”

"Now that the world is calling, I find it hard to resist"

"Am I being sentimental because I've had too little input so that I give exaggerated importance to small things?" 

“You know a work of art is good if it moves you as much or even more the second time you see it.”

“I’m moved by the idea that I now have a role in the museum whose art works triggered my imagination when I was a boy.”

“Being one with the people around me—there’s no more perfect happiness imaginable.”

“It was exciting to walk into another life that I could step back out of a couple of days later.”

“For a moment the vanished time has been restored.”

“There are certain decisions in my life I still regret, and this is one of them.”