blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body, they are two darknesses separated by a skin, I bet you've never thought of that, you carry a darkness about with you all the time and that doesn't frighten you...my dear chap, you have to learn to live with the darkness outside just as you learned to live with the darkness inside

Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.

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

It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.