You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and you're in the museum too, near and far away at the same time. I'm a painting. Rocamadour is a painting. Etienne is a painting, this room is a painting. You think that you're in the room but you're not. You're looking at the room, you're not in the room.

Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.

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

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

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.

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