“I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.”

“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”

“Writing teachers invariably tell students, write about what you know. That's, of course, what you have to do, but on the other hand, how do you know what you know until you've written it? Writing is knowing... I've had very little experience in my life. In fact, I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.”

“Sometimes..I didn't know what I sought until I've found it.”

“I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it’s very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.”

“If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.”