Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.

It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.

Every man should be capable of all ideas.

In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.

What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.