Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.

I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.