We didn't know each other well. I never had the time. Now I see that it doesn't make any difference. The ones who hurry and the ones who take their time all end up in the same place. Just don't have any regrets. No regrets.

There are no answers, only choices.

You believe by doubting and you doubt by believing; yet this state too is not the final one.

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.