"To speak of the night is to speak of what persists."

"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness."

“The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.”

"Memory is not a container—it’s a tide."

“All things are mutating”

"The more sand escapes the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

"I do not dream of painting. I paint dreams."

“Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.”

“Darkness pours out of me in images.”

“Time is the substance I am made of.”

"To write is to walk through a door that appears only when you stop looking for it."

“Man is so pitiful that he can live even without faith, and so great that he can create it.”

“Human life is small, but the grief of man is great.”

“Every biography is a work of fiction.”

“A tale is not beautiful if nothing is unclear.”