The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

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

There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. In the course of a single second, our senses of sight, of hearing, of smell, register (knowingly or not) a swarm of events and a parade of sensations and ideas passes through our head. Each instant represents a little universe, irrevocably forgotten in the next instant.

The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become

Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

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