A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

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

All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.