Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.