The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

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

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same.