"I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat."

"I think that the state should be invisible."

"Reality favors symmetries and slight anachronisms."

"I have always felt that one doesn't have to be a genius to be a good writer. One only has to be honest."

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