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

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.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

People think that I've committed myself to idealism, to solipsism, or to doctrines of the cabala, because I've used them in my tales. But really I was only trying to see what could be done with them. On the other hand, it might be argued that if I use them it's because I was feeling an affinity to them. Of course, that's true.

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

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.