Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left...

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.

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

The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.