A writer's work is the product of laziness.

Reality favors symmetry.

Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing.

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.