Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.

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.

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.