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

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

I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

I can't think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does

Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?

I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.