What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

If you have a fight with yourself, who can win?

No net less wide than a man's whole heart, nor less fine of mesh than love, will hold the sacred Fish.

She had the world’s worst poker face: her feelings floated across them like reflections on a still pond.

The present is the key to the past

Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

The Yankees had to fight all year to get in. When you're fighting all year and fighting all year, it wears you out a little bit.

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

Music is the language of God. God's language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If we love music, that is enough.

Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.