Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

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.

I think most people are more important than their opinions.

Life itself is a quotation.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common: making metaphysics and the arts into a kind of play with combinations.