I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the 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.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

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

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

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