Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

After awhile you could get used to anything.