Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

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

If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

Had I to give advice to writers (and I do not think they need it, because everyone has to find out things for himself), I would tell them simply this; I would ask them to tamper as little as they can with their own work. I do not think tinkering does any good. The moment comes when one has found out what one can do - when one has found one's natural voice, one's rhythm. Then I do not think that slight emendations should prove useful.