In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

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

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

The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every" possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist.

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.