I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

I am against the notion of style in itself

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.

I don't have any style.