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

You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before

In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices.

I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others, in fact I waited for these signs I had begun to recognize, I sought them, responded to those signs I awaited with other signs I made myself, or rather it was I who aroused them, these signs from her, which I answered with other signs of my own . . .

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.

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

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.