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.

Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp that other knowledge, found and lost in an instant.

...Life is nothing but trading smells.

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

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

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