For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words.

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

La memoria no guarda películas, guarda fotografías.

The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.

I have a strong will to love you for eternity.

But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.