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

When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.

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

Why come to Trude? I asked myself. And I already wanted to leave. You cand resume your flight whereever you like," they say to me, "but you will arive at another Trude, absolutely the same, detail by detail. The world is covered by a sole Trude which does not begin and does not end. Only the names of the airport changes.

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