Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?

Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world (from where?), space is by far the less mysterious. It, too, undergoes transformations. Time, on the other hand, is a hostile element, truly treacherous, I would even say against human nature.

Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme.

I believe in no final solutions.

Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.

I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.