A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.