Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

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.

Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.