Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.

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

It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.