Writing [is] a form of prayer.

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else.

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.