I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.

It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.