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

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

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.

Only in the present do things happen.

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.