What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.

For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

Reality favors symmetry.