Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities.

Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

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.

One reads alone, even in another's presence.

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.

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.