The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

'Bad books on writing and thoughtless English professors solemnly tell beginners to 'Write What You Know', which explains why so many mediocre novels are about…

Books, the children of the brain.

It is that word 'hummy,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.