To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.

The recent experiences of pocketbooks prove this. I have changed my public since my works have been published in a smaller format.