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

My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it.

To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.

To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.

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.

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

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 )