The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.