Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone

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.