The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

I try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes it comes through and sometimes it doesn't, but that's not up to me. It's up to chance.

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.