Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for.

Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through the individual's calloused capacity to feel undifferentiated emotions full of longing and dissatisfaction and monumentality.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.