“I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.”

“I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.”

“Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.”

“No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded”

“I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.”

“When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.”

“I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.”