In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

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

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

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Life itself is a quotation.

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.