A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

There is no language without deceit.

Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a patient search... for the sentence in which every word is unalterable.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

When I'm writing a book I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.