It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.

In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course that he had left - or, rather, the true course he had obscurely been seeking all this time. (Last line of the story The Adventure of a Photographer )

My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. . . . Maybe I was only then becoming aware of the weight, the inertia, the opacity of the world--qualities that stick to the writing from the start, unless one finds some way of evading them.