All writing is dreaming

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.