“There should be no promise of a plot. Plot is extraordinary, while chance is ordinary.”

“I wondered whether the loss of one's sight would deprive a person also of the memory of everything that he had seen before. If so, the man would no longer be able to see even in his dreams. if not, if only the eyeless could still see through their memory, it would not be too bad. The world seemed to be pretty much the same everywhere, and even though people differed from one another, just as animals and trees did, one should know fairly well what they looked like after seeing them for years. I had lived only seven years, but I remembered a lot of things. when I closed my eyes, many details cam back still more vividly. who knows, perhaps without his eyes the plowboy would start seeing an entirely new, more fascinating world.”

“Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life”

“I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity”

“It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.”

“There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.”

“We know our lives are chaotic, but we insist that everything happen in an orderly way and be logically conceived.”