We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left...

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.

I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.

It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.

Only in the present do things happen.