There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.

I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.

It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. I have no social purpose, no moral message; I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with elegant solutions.

There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.

You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.

All great novels are great fairy tales.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.