I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

We all have appointments with the past.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

Achievements must be highlights and not forgotten. So you always will have to rely in something on your frustrations.

Our thoughts is what our life make it

What are you? The pregnant MacGyver?” “Best compliment I’ve had in a while.

Instead of looking for miracles why believe so strong in invisible virtues like dignity of labor.

This stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality.

A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.

A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

I really couldn't say how famous I really am, that's for the history books to decide. But I'll probably be pretty up there.