Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

Trust is fine, but control is better.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.