What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?

In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility; their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.