For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.