Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

A literary man - with a wooden leg.

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.