The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.