The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.