Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.