The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

Express only that which cannot be expressed. Leave it unexpressed)

A story? No. No stories, never again.

But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.

The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.

To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.

If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.

Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.

Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

There’s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.

Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak.

I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.

Thank you for keeping it a secret. There aren't many of those in this tribe.

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts