The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.

I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

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

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.