Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone

People think that I've committed myself to idealism, to solipsism, or to doctrines of the cabala, because I've used them in my tales. But really I was only trying to see what could be done with them. On the other hand, it might be argued that if I use them it's because I was feeling an affinity to them. Of course, that's true.

A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.