That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.

A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.