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

You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.

If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.

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.

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.