There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.