...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.

I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

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

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.

The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.