Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

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

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.

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

Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.