The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.
A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
My library is an archive of longings.
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.