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

Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?" "Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own.

Kafka had the sense of guilt. I don't think I have because I don't believe in free will. Because what I have done has been done, well, for me or through me. But I haven't done it really. But I don't believe in free will, I can't feel guilty.

I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him - or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.

My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

Death is just infinity closing in.