Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing.

The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.

We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !