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

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.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

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.

Vice is basically the love of failure.