Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

What novel - or what else in the world - can have the epic scope of a photograph album? May our Father in Heaven, the untiring amateur who each Sunday snaps us from above, at an unfortunate angle that makes for hideous foreshortening, and pastes our pictures, properly exposed or not, in his album, guide me safely through this album of mine.

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.