I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
A writer's work is the product of laziness.
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.