I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

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

It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.