"Perhaps I am a man of the eighteenth century, living in the twentieth, who dreams of the future."

"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."

"Reality is not always probable, or even plausible."

"I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat."

"All literature is an autobiography."