I try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes it comes through and sometimes it doesn't, but that's not up to me. It's up to chance.

The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive

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.