It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion. ...I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough.

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.