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

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an encyclopedia, a very rigorous one of course, of an imaginary world, where everything should be linked.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same.