One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.

I have expressed some ideas that point to the center; I have saluted the dawn in my way, from my point of view. He who knows the way should do the same, in his way, and from his point of view.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.