Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.

Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.

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