People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.

Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.