Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it.