Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.
I don’t consider myself to be definite, but in waiting position and eventual appearance.
Loyalty is not the kind of exclusive deal, it’s just a sincere communication and the same values.
He gave up. He’d been feeling like giving up for a long, long time. I guess it’s maturity, they say it always gets you in the end. I don’t seem to have any more principles left, so it’s got to be maturity... A broken man, I guess that’s what you become, the moment you are no longer a kid.
Printing mistakes adds value because of the probability calculus, which makes their intrusion into something problematic and almost impossible, even when everything’s conceived, precisely, to avoid the intrusion of human error.
Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.
When a war is won, it’s the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.
The avantgarde are people who don’t exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.
I’ve had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.
Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.
I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.
They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior.
A writer’s subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.
Sometimes I have the feeling that we live in a dubbed movie and everybody moves their lips but the voices don’t correspond. We are all post-synchronized and sometimes is very accomplished and looks natural.
I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that I feel so weak there most be a mistake, and as I don’t know what I mean with this, I am not going to say anything else.
Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.
There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.