I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common: making metaphysics and the arts into a kind of play with combinations.

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.

A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it.