The war of good and evil present in all religions does not always end, in every faith, with the victory of good, but in every one it establishes a clear order of existence. The sacred as well as the profane rests on that universal order.

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.

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?' 'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.

If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.

The number of one's possible fantasies is inversely proportional to the amount of one's liquid assets. For him who has everything dreams are no longer possible.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.