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

In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

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

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.