Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.

An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.