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

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.

I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality of my writing. But if I were writing for thousands of people, then I would write what might please them. And as I know nothing about them, and maybe I'd have a rather low opinion of them, I don't think that would do any good to my work.

I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an encyclopedia, a very rigorous one of course, of an imaginary world, where everything should be linked.

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.