Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

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

Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.