The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.

The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.

At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.

I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.