"I have always been a man of symbols. I have always been a man of metaphors."

"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."

"I have always believed that the most important thing for a writer is to be a reader."

"To sleep is to be human. To wake is to be human. To dream is to be God."

"If I were to write a history of my literary life, it would be a history of my readings and not of my writings."