For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.