The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.