It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives.