This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

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

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

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

A writer's work is the product of laziness.