Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.

If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.

i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.