Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

Literature usually begets literature.

I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.