I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.

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

The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.