Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.

A secret is powerful when it is empty.

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things.

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").