"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones which can be given neither a name nor any real description…"

"Sleep is the most innocent creature and the most, therefore, defenceless. When sleep does not come, it is because I have been too defenceless, too open, too naked to the world."

"I am a cage, in search of a bird."

"What is the point of a book if it doesn't lead you to a new world?"

"I am a man of letters, and I am nothing else."