Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

In love, one and one are one.

There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.