Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.

Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.

a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.

In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.