Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Under the pathologist's microscope, life and death fight in an illuminated circle in a sort of cellular bullfight. The pathologist's job is to find the bull among the matador cells

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

May books spread the world over!

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.