Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

We haven't the time to take out time.

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

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