I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?

I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.

Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.

Love is worth whatever it costs.