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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.