Only in the present do things happen.

I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some regular form. I only know that when I have the first sentence. And when the first sentence makes a kind of pattern, then I find out the kind of rhythm I'm looking for.

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

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.

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.

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.