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

Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.

It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.

For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator by his creation, and the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created by anyone than to think that somebody created this intentionally.

For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another?