I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

Life itself is a quotation.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

In my next life I will try to commit more errors.

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.