How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.