Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

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

Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived.

Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.