"I don't write for posterity. I write for myself and for my friends."

"I have always been a skeptic. I have always doubted everything."

"I have known what the Greeks did not: uncertainty."

"I am not sure that I exist, in fact. I am all the writers I have read, all the people I have met, all the women I have loved; all the cities I have visited, all the ancestors I have had."

"I am not a philosopher. I am a man of letters. I am a man of words."