"I am a man of the nineteenth century, living in the twentieth."

"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 have always been a melancholic."

"The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps."

"I have been blind for many years, but I have seen more than most men."