I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." -- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. 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.