Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents
I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write.
I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.
Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.
The past is always an invented land.
Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.