He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

If you using local color in an unobtrusive way, it is all for the good. But if you stress it, the whole thing is artificial. But it should be used, I mean, it's not forbidden. But you don't have to stress it.

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.

Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shall make dust of history, dust of dust. Now I am looking on the final sunset. I am hearing the last bird. I bequeath nothingness to no one.

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.