My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.

One can gain more truth from the exception than from the rule