Being somebody: it's one of the ideas in life, no? That's what my father made clear to me. The importance of being somebody. He wanted to be somebody. And he underlined to me the fate of trying to be somebody and not quite managing to do it.

Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.

Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.

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.

To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.