By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

We all have appointments with the past.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding band Wisdom

A writer creates like the sculptor, with one exception: The writer must create his block of marble, before chiseling away the non-essentials.

I suppose longevity requires giving up life's pleasures, one by one, until there's nothing left.

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.

In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'

I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

God is equally near in all creatures.

If it rusts, it can never be trusted If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him Yes, pride is Like a blade.