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

Writing is only a guided dream.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

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

The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.