Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.

The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.

In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.