Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

No more semblance or disemblance, no more God or Man, only an immanent logic of the principle of operativity.

What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.

Languages are not strangers to on another.

Happiness is just a smile away.

When they ask me to become president of the United States I'm going to say, "Except for Washington D.C.

. . . I'm not pretty, not close up anyway. Generally, the closer people get to me the less hot they find me.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.

I was a kid and I studied when I had to [live].

The pain of being in a bad relationship is confusing. When it's over - it's over. No more confusion!

For years, I stored my sweaters in the oven.

Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.