Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.

When you're telling a story, you've got to give details.

Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

You contemplate and you wander without any worries, between heaven and earth, in your own private world, and in this way you acquire supreme freedom.

The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.