"I have always been a solitary man. I have always preferred books to people."

"The future is inevitable. We cannot change it. We can only change how we react to it."

"I always say that I am not a writer but a reader. I am a reader who writes. I read a lot, and I write very little. And I read everything."

"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."

"Mirrors and copulation are abominable, for they multiply the numbers of men."