I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny.

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.