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.

The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.