It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.
I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.
Everything touches everything.
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
All writing is dreaming.
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
Death is just infinity closing in.