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.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

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

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

I have never sought the reason why I write.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.