I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him - or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.

Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.

What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

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

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.

Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.