If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.

Death is the inventor of God.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.

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.

The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.