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

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader