Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

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

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.