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.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.

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

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

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.