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

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

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