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

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

I have made love to ten thousand women.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

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.