1.
For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
Claude Simon
2.
Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.
Claude Simon
3.
In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.'
Claude Simon
4.
There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.
Claude Simon
5.
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.
Claude Simon
