I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.