Each thing implies the universe.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and pieces, and yet I know what it is, with that bold and legitimate certainty with which we assert our knowledge of a city, without ever having been rewarded with the intimacy of all the many streets it includes.

Everything touches everything.

In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." -- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors

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.