If you really want to know, I’d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing’s done now, of course, and I can’t alter it. But…

- J.M.G. Le Clézio

She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years.

- J.M.G. Le Clézio

Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.

- J.M.G. Le Clézio

Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train.

- J.M.G. Le Clézio

One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication.

- J.M.G. Le Clézio

It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and vibrant movement of creation, in which t…

- J.M.G. Le Clézio

The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.

- J.M.G. Le Clézio