Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.