From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

All writing is dreaming

Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.