Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

The vague torment of ... ambition.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.

If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.