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?

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

The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.

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

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take photographs, an activity in which one should start becoming adept very early in life, teach it to children since it requires discipline, aesthetic education, a good eye and steady fingers.