Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.