There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

Longing on a large scale makes history.

The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.

A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.