The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?

Kafka had the sense of guilt. I don't think I have because I don't believe in free will. Because what I have done has been done, well, for me or through me. But I haven't done it really. But I don't believe in free will, I can't feel guilty.

When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.