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 believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.

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

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.