I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative.

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players.

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.