If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.

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

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

Writing is only a guided dream.