When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.