I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else.

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.

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.

I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else.

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

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.