Every exploration is an appropriation.

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not--this is the beginning of writing.

Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.