Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.

... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.

When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.

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.