The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold.

All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.