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.
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
Lully’s machine, Mill’s fear and Lasswitz’s chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common: making metaphysics and the arts into a kind of play with combinations.
The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.