Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

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