"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what's the point of reading it? So that it will make us h…"

"I am a book that has not been written."

"What is important is to be able to stand on one's own feet, to be able to say 'I'."

"The animal is not a friend, it is a being."

"All I am is literature, and I am not able to be anything else."