I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

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 execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.

I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.

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