If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.

The novels that attract me most are those that create an illusion of transparency around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel, and perverse as possible.

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

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

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

You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can then hand it on to her, to communicate again with her through the channel dug by others' words, which, as they are uttered by an alien voice, by the voice of that silent nobody made of ink and typographical spacing, can become yours and hers, a language, a code between the two of you, a means to exchange signals and recognize each other.