The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes.

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

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?

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

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

I'm such a jerk; it had never occurred to me that when we look at a photo from the front, the eyes reproduce exactly the position and the vision of the lens; it's these things that are taken for granted and it never occurs to anyone to think about them.