I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.