“If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his readers to believe it.”

“I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.”

“I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.”

“What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?”

“He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.”

“i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.”

“The fact is that each writer creates his own precursors.”