Every man should be capable of all ideas.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

The time for your labor has been granted.

We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.