The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it’s very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.