"I am not sure that I exist, in fact. I am all the writers I have read, all the people I have met, all the women I have loved; all the cities I have visited, all the ancestors I have had."

"The taste of the apple... lies in the contact of the fruit with the palate, not in the fruit itself."

"I have always felt that one doesn't have to be a genius to be a good writer. One only has to be honest."

"Any life, however long and complicated it may be, is made up of a single moment — the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."

"I think that the state should be invisible."