To survive, you must tell stories.

For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.