You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the time. Personally, I think I can do with Greek and Old Norse mythology. For example, I don't think I stand in need of planes or of railways or of cars.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books... If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.

What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

Death is just infinity closing in.

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