I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

I try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes it comes through and sometimes it doesn't, but that's not up to me. It's up to chance.

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

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in an afterlife or not, whether I believe in God or not, I can only answer you that all things are possible. And if all things are possible, heaven and hell and the angels are also possible. They're not to be ruled out.

You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.